Welcome to the Pac-10, Lane Kiffin

[John]

Tweet from Chattanooga's UT beat writer Wes Rucker: "We got a one minute statement and nothing else because local TV news director wouldn't agree to terms."

From what I can gather, WBIR news director Bill Shorey wouldn't agree to not go live with the presser.

Good for the News Director. UT doesn't get to make editorial decisions.

However, from what I gather, his refusal guaranteed that there would be no Q&A. Though there might not have been any anyway.

Vols basketball player Renaldo Woolridge is Tweeting about the scene on campus: http://twitter.com/Swiperboy.

 

[dixiehack]

From Volquest.com

We have heard from multiple sources, including defensive tackle Marlon Walls that Ed Orgeron was on the phone tonight with some of the early enrollees telling them not to go to class tomorrow and attempting to begin the process of recruiting them to USC.

Including the duo from South Carolina that touched off Hostessgate

http://www.goupstate.com/article/20100112/PSPORTS02/100119927/-1/PSPORTS

Karma's a bench, ain't she Vols?

 

[zagoshe]

Zag's daily schedule:

9 a.m.: Check fanboy message boards from all 12 SEC schools. Make list of most reprehensable posts.
9:30 a.m.: Go to SportsJournalists.com to insult/complain/bench about SEC fans
10 a.m.: Check Pittsburgh fanboards
10:30 a.m.: Go to SportsJournalists.com to insult/complain/bench about all things Pittsburgh

Lather, rinse, repeat

Hold on, hold on, get it right.
I mean you forgot....
11 a.m. make fun of MB for being a hypocrite.
12 a.m. argue with OOP about, well, anything
1 pm get scolded by Big Ragu for being an asshole
2 pm argue with BYH about Jeff Fisher and Tony Dungy
3 pm call Bubbler angry
4 pm tell Moderator that the couple of times we had beers were a helluva a good time
5 pm try hard to argue with Ace while keeping a straight face because his one-liners are usually funny
6 pm laugh at 93 Devil's fanboy rants about basketball
7 pm shoot down OOP's latest flights of fantasy
8 pm apologize to Lucas Wiseman for being an asshole, again......
9 pm make fun of Grimace and Fudgie for being losers
10 pm tie JR up in a chair in a restraunt and smoke cigarrettes until he cries
11 pm get told to go fork myself by Zeke
12 am Have BTExpress and TigerVols in tears because I make a valid arguments that Charles Woodson and Paul Hornung really should have won the Heismans they won and they know I am right.....

 

[sportshack06]

UT Campus looks like an LA Riot Scene....
Tear gas.
Students trying to keep Kiffin from leaving.
Mattresses on fire.

Just trying to give Lane a preview of what he'll see out west, I guess.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Tweet from Chattanooga's UT beat writer Wes Rucker: "We got a one minute statement and nothing else because local TV news director wouldn't agree to terms."

From what I can gather, WBIR news director Bill Shorey wouldn't agree to not go live with the presser.

Good for the News Director. UT doesn't get to make editorial decisions.

However, from what I gather, his refusal guaranteed that there would be no Q&A. Though there might not have been any anyway.

Vols basketball player Renaldo Woolridge is Tweeting about the scene on campus: http://twitter.com/Swiperboy.

Tear gas!?! Chasing Kiffin's car!?!

Please tell me TV crews got that footage.

 

[micropolitan guy]

We have heard from multiple sources, including defensive tackle Marlon Walls that Ed Orgeron was on the phone tonight with some of the early enrollees telling them not to go to class tomorrow and attempting to begin the process of recruiting them to USC.

If they are early enrollees (and if this is true), haven't they signed an LOI? And isn't contacting recruits who have already signed a valid LOI some kind of NCAA infraction?

Hiring a guy like Kiffin is a strange move for a program that could very easily be facing "lack of institutional control" charges within the next six months.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Urban Meyer reacting to the news?

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa63/BPDuncanTTU/148ksw1-1.gif

Don't know how much to believe on Twitter, but sounds like Kiffin was chased off campus by students who crashed his press conference. I believe @Swiperboy is exaggerating some things

 

[dooley_womack1]

Zag's daily schedule:

9 a.m.: Check fanboy message boards from all 12 SEC schools. Make list of most reprehensable posts.
9:30 a.m.: Go to SportsJournalists.com to insult/complain/bench about SEC fans
10 a.m.: Check Pittsburgh fanboards
10:30 a.m.: Go to SportsJournalists.com to insult/complain/bench about all things Pittsburgh

Lather, rinse, repeat

So it was perfectly fine to give out Layla Kiffin's cell number?

 

[mb]

The early enrolees are fair game until they step foot in their first class.

 

[dooley_womack1]

UT Campus looks like an LA Riot Scene....
Tear gas.
Students trying to keep Kiffin from leaving.
Mattresses on fire.

Just trying to give Lane a preview of what he'll see out at West Virginia, I guess.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

This is the greatest thing you'll see all day:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/fp/flashPollResultsState?sportIndex=frontpage&pollId=84592

 

[mb]

So it was perfectly fine to give out Layla Kiffin's cell number?

http://tennessee.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=8&mid=138235903&sid=879&tid=138235903&style=1

There's one post asking what the number is. One response that it's 867-5309. One post by a guy claiming to know it. One guy asking him how he knows it. And original guy saying he "tap that chit of and on."

that's some pretty outrageous stuff, huh?